Annual Blog?

I really should try harder at blogging. I have only just noticed that my last blog was added nearly a year ago. How do people do it? How do they add blogs most days or even weekly. Promise to self – must try harder.

In the coming weeks I will begin to update where I am with my book, Landscapes of Trauma (the deadline approaches – September 2019), with research, and so on.

I have spent several weeks away researching and writing the book, and the last trip – to somewhere near Sedan – was particularly productive. I could say this is not the end, nor is it the beginning of the end, but it might be the end of the beginning of writing it. I churned out around 20,000 words in a week. That sounds a lot, but there is no real suggestion that they are in the right order, or that they are the right words. Time will tell. I currently plan to have a draft of the whole book ready for early summer, when we will spend a few weeks in the south of France, where I will get up early every day, sit at my desk looking over the landscape of Provence, be very productive for four hours, go and eat outside, perhaps with a glass of rose (no, skip that if I want to get back to writing), and then a short walk followed by a siesta. In the early evening, I will sit under the shade and write for another couple of hours before eating my evening meal and sharing a glass or two of the red.

And then the book will be finished.

It is good to dream of productivity.